Re: A preamp for direct recording?
Are you sure you "need" three channels ? You could always pop a booster or OD in front of it.
I like to think of my pick attack as the first point where I can get more or less gain, the volume knob on the guitar the second point. With that, I also can have "a lot of channels" and you could try that to, pick up a nice playing technique as well. But then again, I'm old ..